Summer Fellows 2010

TLG Capital identifies and grooms top graduate talent to place into our investments abroad. For 2010, we have recruited four Summer Fellows and given them the opportunity to demonstrate how they can leverage their financial modelling skills, operational experience, cultural sensitivity and enthusiasm for being deployed in frontier markets.

Imad Ahmed

Imad Ahmed is working with the Investment and Marketing Teams in London. He is pursuing a Master of International Business at The Fletcher School, Tufts University and HEC Paris on a Schmidheiny Global Business Scholarship. At Fletcher, he has advised OPIC on how to market its Political Risk Insurance products for investments in frontier markets. Imad horizontally expanded the services of an accounting firm in London, has been Features Editor at Pakistan’s The Friday Times and publishes in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Newsweek and Internationale Politik. He has managed political and social campaigns in Pakistan and the United States and has a BA in Economics from UC Berkeley.

James Bain

James Bain will be constructing a marketing strategy for Compagnie Fluviale du Mekong in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. James is pursuing an MBA at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. James worked as a Senior Consultant at IBM’s Global Business Services, Strategy and Change Practice. He has a BA in Politics from New York University, where he won the Dean’s Award for best honors Politics thesis.

Farnaz Chavoushi

Farnaz Chavoushi will be working with the Investment Team in London. She is pursuing an MBA at Harvard Business School. As a student, she has worked with the IFC’s IT and Telecom investment team in emerging markets. Prior to her MBA, she worked for McKinsey’s Corporate Finance practice in Amsterdam, advising senior corporate executives and private equity players on growth strategy and M&A activity. Prior to McKinsey, she worked at the UN Development Program in Tehran. She has two previous Master degrees; one in International Relations from SAIS at Johns Hopkins, and one in Finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and the Rotterdam School of Management. Farnaz has been volunteering her consulting services to a micro-leasing organisation in Tanzania.

Mambidzeni Madzivire

Mambidzeni Madzivire will carry out due diligence on the only health clinic to have survived both of Liberia’s civil wars in Monrovia. She will also suggest improvements to the clinic’s work-plan. She has been working on an initiative to ensure the sustainability of donated medical equipment, supported by a grant from the Clinton Global Initiative University. Mambidzeni is from Zimbabwe and is pursuing an MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She has a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Mayo Graduate School and a BA in Physics and East Asian Studies from Smith College.